Configuring pfsense Firewall Rules For Home [YouTube Release]

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Official Netgate pfsense documentation on firewall rules

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Getting Stared with pfsense firewall rules

How To Setup VLANS With pfsense & UniFI. Also how to build for firewall rules for VLANS in pfsense

Office Network Design and Planning with VLANs, LLDP, Rules, IoT, Guest using UniFi & pfsense

How To Setup pfsense OpenVPN Policy Routing With Kill Switch Using A Privacy VPN

Tutorial: pfsense Wireguard For Remote Access

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:stopwatch: Timestamps :stopwatch:
00:00 pfsense Home Firewall Rules
02:00 Diagrams.net Devices & Networks
06:30 pfsense NAT rules
07:04 WAN Firewall Rules
08:16 IOT & LAN Rules

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Many thanks, certainly wanting to look at pfsense again. Currently using Untangle / Sophos XG

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Could you please share the benefits/reasons of routing traffic via a VPN provider?
The reasons that you made this decision, not general benefits.

Thanks

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A great video as always. I do have one question regarding blocking traffic between VLANs. Instead allowing all traffic and manually blocking traffic to each local network (VLAN) I usually create my main rule for internet traffic allowing all traffic to any destination that is NOT a LAN address in the RFC1918 Ranges.

This way I don’t have to manually block traffic to each local network. I always wonder if this is perhaps not the recommended way of creating the rules. Perhaps I should be making an allow any rule and an explicit block rule for each local network manually like in the video. I would be interested to hear peoples thoughts.

I have included a screenshot of my rules as an example where I have the alias !LAN_NETWORKS to allow any Internet traffic except LAN networks.

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Tom you mentioned in your video that you don’t have port forwarding for Plex but use the VPN to access it. Can you use a VPN if you have other users on a firestick or roku that access my plex server from a remote location to the server?